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26/8/2018

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The cosmos are still flowering! I deadhead them frequently and they just keep producing and being visited by the bees and the odd peacock butterfly.
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I've never grown anything as tall in my three black pots before and I like the way it has screened the seating area and made it into a sort of separate room/
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It has rained heavily all day today but yesterday, wearing a thick jacket, I breakfasted outside - french toast (eggy bread) with strawberries. cherries. pomegranite seeds and yoghurt. Yum. I enjoyed it so much I went in and greedilly made another serving.

What is still flowering near you?
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Julia
26/8/2018 02:08:53 pm

Banks and banks of limelight hydrangeas, freda...and glorious hot weather still.

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Freda
27/8/2018 12:43:54 pm

That sounds fabulous.

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Mary
26/8/2018 04:36:12 pm

Not much. Everything is pretty much fried except for some hardy marigolds (these 'annuals' have been reseeding themselves for more than two decades.) Hardy indeed.

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Freda
27/8/2018 12:45:08 pm

Fried flowers - oh dear. But those marigolds must be stalwarts.

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Lucille link
26/8/2018 11:38:57 pm

Yes the cosmos with flowers getting ever smaller but still numerous. Also the white Japanese anemone. I have reluctantly cut back the lavender and salvias and started dividing the tough old Libertia which didn't really flower. Another non flowerer was my purple clematis which budded but then turned directly to seed during the drought.

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Freda
27/8/2018 12:46:11 pm

it has been a season of extremes!

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Susan
27/8/2018 12:03:47 am

Eggy bread with strawberries. What a fab. combination idea! I'll try it.

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Susan
27/8/2018 12:06:50 am

Sorry, went off-track, lured by the sight of tempting food!
Rose moschata (an ancient variety) is blooming with abundance: clusters of single petalled simple white flowers.

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Freda
27/8/2018 12:47:43 pm

I hope you enjoy the eggy bread and strawberries Susan, and your rose does sound splendid.

Linda
27/8/2018 02:05:05 am

I love your seating area - very inviting, but can I be nosey and ask a question? The yellow hoop? I always notice it when you show that side of the house, but where did it come from? It looks great.

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Freda
27/8/2018 12:50:19 pm

We found it on the beach Linda and painted it yellow. Its very heavy and a bit rusty now. I just love the simplicity of a circle..

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Mary B
27/8/2018 02:20:22 am

Your breakfast tray is a work of art.I feel so hungry!
Garden here damp and flattened after several days of misty drizzle so Rudbeckia in great clumps , Hydrangeas and a few brave Johnsons Blue still flowering.Also some very sad sunflowers and a few determined runner beans.Your seating area looks very inviting.

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Freda
27/8/2018 12:52:50 pm

My daughter has designed and planted a garden for a wedding and we are almost holding our breath that it will last till next Saturday and that the weather will be kind! There can be a melancholy feeling to gardens from now...

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cath
27/8/2018 07:17:54 am

Sometimes I can't help wondering how big your garden is. Today is such an occasion when finding photographs of a new, secret, room.
What a lovely place that is. I think I'd spend a lot of time there as it seems a perfect, secluded place to write. I just might choose white cosmos for my balcony next year.

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Freda
27/8/2018 12:55:47 pm

I suspect it looks bigger than it is in photographs Cath. This corner is the sunniest and I love to sit there. A friend found mini-cosmos which were very pretty and might look great on a balcony (about 2 feet high instead of 3 - 4 feet.)

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Viv link
27/8/2018 03:54:26 pm

My Cosmos are not a patch on yours - they got blown about in the strong winds and lashing rain and never recovered properly. Our pots have spent more time at the bottom of the garden in the shade than on the patio this year as it has been too hot to leave them whilst we were in Scotland and once again the builders are here and we have had to clear everything out of their way.
That breakfast looks yummy.

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Freda
28/8/2018 06:42:38 pm

It has been a season of extremes, hasn't it?

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